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Bigger Than You Think - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: We are going into the Word of God. Grab your
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  Speaker 1: Bibles wherever you got to get it from. Get up
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  Speaker 1: out of the bed. Get your Bible. 1 Samuel chapter
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  Speaker 1: number 17, verse 17 through 29. There we will contemplate
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  Speaker 1: the Scriptures that the Lord has given us today. It
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  Speaker 1: is our custom to stand for the reading of God's Word.
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  Speaker 1: We respect His Word. We esteem it above our necessary food.
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  Speaker 1: We honor it even above our leaders, our preachers, our pastors,
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  Speaker 1: our presidents. We stand for them, we're going to stand
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  Speaker 1: for God. Again, 1 Samuel chapter number 17, verse number 17,
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  Speaker 1: when you have it, say amen. And Jesse said unto
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  Speaker 1: David his son, take now for thy brethren an ephah
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  Speaker 1: of this parched corn and these ten loaves, and run
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  Speaker 1: to the camp to thy brethren. And carry these ten
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  Speaker 1: cheeses unto the captain of their thousand. And look how
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  Speaker 1: thy brethren fare and take their pledge. Now Saul and
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  Speaker 1: they and all the men of Israel were in the
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  Speaker 1: valley of Elah fighting with the Philistines. And David rose up.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to this. And David rose up early in the
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  Speaker 1: morning and left the sheep with the keeper. and took
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  Speaker 1: and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came
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  Speaker 1: to the trench as the host was going forth to
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  Speaker 1: the fight and shouted for the battle. For Israel and
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  Speaker 1: the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.
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  Speaker 1: And David left his carriage in the hands of the
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  Speaker 1: keeper of the carriage and ran into the army and
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  Speaker 1: came and saluted his brethren. And as he talked with them, behold,
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  Speaker 1: there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath
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  Speaker 1: by name, out of the armies of the Philistines and
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  Speaker 1: speak according to the same words. And David heard, and
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  Speaker 1: David heard them. And all the men of Israel, when
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  Speaker 1: they saw the man, fled from him and were, they
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  Speaker 1: were sore afraid. And the men of Israel said, Have
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  Speaker 1: ye seen this man that is come up? Surely to
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  Speaker 1: defy Israel is he come up. And it shall be
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  Speaker 1: that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich
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  Speaker 1: him with great riches and will give him his daughter
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  Speaker 1: and make his father's house free in Israel. And David
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  Speaker 1: spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What
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  Speaker 1: shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine?
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  Speaker 1: And taketh away the reproach from Israel. For who is
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  Speaker 1: this uncircumcised Philistine. That he should defy the armies of
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  Speaker 1: the living God. And the people answered him after this
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  Speaker 1: manner saying. So shall it be done to the man
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  Speaker 1: that killeth him. So shall it be done. So shall
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  Speaker 1: it be done. And Eliab his elder brother heard. When
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  Speaker 1: he spake unto the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled
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  Speaker 1: against David. And he said, why camest thou down hither?
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  Speaker 1: And with whom hast thou left those few sheep in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness? I know thy pride and the naughtiness of
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  Speaker 1: thine heart. For thou art come down that thou mightest
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  Speaker 1: see the battle. You ought to go home where you belong.
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  Speaker 1: And David said, what have I now done? Is there
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  Speaker 1: not a cause? Can you say amen? Can you say
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  Speaker 1: amen again? Look at somebody and say it's bigger than
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  Speaker 1: you think. Say it again, it's bigger than you think. Father,
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, I thank you for what
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  Speaker 1: you're about to do in the midst of your people.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you because the flower fades and the grass withers,
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  Speaker 1: but the word of the Lord stands forever. Job esteemed
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  Speaker 1: it above his necessary food. David said, it was a
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  Speaker 1: lamp unto my feet and a light unto my pathway. Oh, God,
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  Speaker 1: the centurion said, speak the word only and my daughter
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  Speaker 1: shall be healed. That's all we want you to do
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  Speaker 1: today is speak the word to us and allow us
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  Speaker 1: to examine our perspectives, our ideas, our philosophies, and challenge
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  Speaker 1: how we live with your eternal word. I believe you
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  Speaker 1: for increase today in the invincible, eternal, immutable name of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ our King. And all the believers in the
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  Speaker 1: house said amen. Somebody ought to say amen again. You
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  Speaker 1: may be seated in the presence of God. It is
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  Speaker 1: an interesting text that lay before us today. It is
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  Speaker 1: not the normal text that we would consider. It stops
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  Speaker 1: short of dealing with the Magnanimous, powerful display of God's
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  Speaker 1: power through his instrument that defeated the foe of Goliath.
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  Speaker 1: And yet it does not even examine who David is
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  Speaker 1: in the fullest potential of his power and his prophetic value.
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  Speaker 1: The sliver of the text that I've chosen to discuss
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  Speaker 1: with you today starts out in the most simplistic and
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  Speaker 1: mundane way. It is only meaningful to us because we
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  Speaker 1: know how the story is. And we know the story.
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  Speaker 1: But I want you to indulge me in a moment
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  Speaker 1: and imagine if you were David and you didn't know
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  Speaker 1: how the day was going to end. Imagine if you
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  Speaker 1: were David and you had listened to your father that
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  Speaker 1: night give you instructions what you were to do. Now
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  Speaker 1: understand all of your bigger brothers are in the battle.
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  Speaker 1: They have fancy swords and uniforms. They have shields. They
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  Speaker 1: have put on all of this armor. They have red
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  Speaker 1: velvet garments and capes adorning them because they are the
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  Speaker 1: army of Israel and you You're just a youngster, an upstart.
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  Speaker 1: My grandmother would say a whippersnapper that they left at
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  Speaker 1: home to take care of the sheep. He's the baby boy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's the baby boy. And I want to talk to
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  Speaker 1: you about that because he is the baby boy. He's
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  Speaker 1: the little one. And little things matter. And so he
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  Speaker 1: is given a little assignment. The little boy is given
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  Speaker 1: a little assignment. And he does this with this attitude.
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  Speaker 1: He makes up in his mind that in the morning
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  Speaker 1: I will rise up early. I will assign the welfare,
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  Speaker 1: the taking care of my sheep to somebody to be
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  Speaker 1: a substitute shepherd in my absence. While I run this
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  Speaker 1: little errand for my father. And I get in my
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  Speaker 1: hands this ephah of corn or wheat or whatever substance
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  Speaker 1: it was and ten loaves of bread and run down
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  Speaker 1: here with a little lunch. In essence, David is a
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  Speaker 1: delivery boy. It's a little thing that he set out
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  Speaker 1: to do. You must understand when we start talking about
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  Speaker 1: this that David has no idea what will happen by
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day. It is not the mighty
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  Speaker 1: majestic moves of God that we need help with how
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  Speaker 1: to handle. It is the mundane, ritualistic, ordinary days that
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  Speaker 1: stand in between the mountaintop experiences that we live in
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  Speaker 1: most of the time. We have more days of normalcy
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  Speaker 1: and complacency than we do of spectacular displays of power.
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  Speaker 1: This is just another morning for David to get up
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  Speaker 1: with yet another chore to do. And he wipes his
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  Speaker 1: face and brushes his teeth and grabs his bag full
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  Speaker 1: of food and decides, I'm going down there to be
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  Speaker 1: at a particular place to do what my father told
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  Speaker 1: me to do. What I want you to understand, though,
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  Speaker 1: in spite of the simplicity of the assignment, in spite
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  Speaker 1: of the smallness of the assignment, in spite of how
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  Speaker 1: little it is, in spite of how little David himself is,
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  Speaker 1: in spite of the fact that he is so young
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  Speaker 1: and too young to be in the battle, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to understand that little things matter. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to understand little things matter. And until you understand that
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  Speaker 1: little things matter, you will never be able to fulfill
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  Speaker 1: your destiny. Throughout the course of our discussion, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to give you some lesson tips that I want you
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  Speaker 1: to jot down and I want you to remember. It's
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  Speaker 1: what separates the giant killers from the giant watchers. These principles,
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  Speaker 1: these transferable truths are just as relevant today as they
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  Speaker 1: have ever been. In fact, the first one I want
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  Speaker 1: you to write down is great people do little things
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  Speaker 1: with excellence. Great people. people do little things with excellence.
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  Speaker 1: Great people don't just do great things with excellence. They
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  Speaker 1: do little things with excellence. They understand how important it
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  Speaker 1: is to do normal things. In fact, it is a
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  Speaker 1: sure sign that you're going to end up in a
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  Speaker 1: great place when you give great detail to little things,
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  Speaker 1: when something little goes wrong and it bothers you, when
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  Speaker 1: you want to make sure that everything is right, even
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  Speaker 1: though you don't have a title and you don't have
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  Speaker 1: a position and you don't have recognition and you don't
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  Speaker 1: have prestige, but you have a standard to which you
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  Speaker 1: hold yourself to. It's not about them. It's about a
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  Speaker 1: standard you hold yourself to and the standard is a
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  Speaker 1: standard of excellence. Excellence doesn't start when the lights come on.
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  Speaker 1: Excellence doesn't start when the crowd gathers. Excellence doesn't come
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  Speaker 1: when everybody's watching. Excellence is nurtured in mediocrity in ordinary
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  Speaker 1: days when you begin to appreciate the power of the
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  Speaker 1: words before. Nothing about this story forewarns us of the
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  Speaker 1: significance of this day. There's no warning. There's no warning label.
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  Speaker 1: God puts no warning label on greatness. He does not
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  Speaker 1: tell you that when you meet this person, it is
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  Speaker 1: going to change your life. He does not tell you
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  Speaker 1: that when you walk through this door, you'll never be
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  Speaker 1: the same again. He does not tell you that this
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  Speaker 1: little job, this little assignment that you're going on is
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  Speaker 1: going to be the catalyst through which your destiny is released.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't tell you anything like that. David is the
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  Speaker 1: baby of his family. He has a little chore to do.
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  Speaker 1: It's just an ordinary chore. He has a little assignment
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  Speaker 1: to take care of. He has to manage his normal
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  Speaker 1: and yet perform a little assignment. God has given him
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  Speaker 1: practice with managing responsibility because he is grooming him for greatness.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm talking to out there, but
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  Speaker 1: God is grooming you for greatness. I know it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: look great right now. Your wallet doesn't look great right now.
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  Speaker 1: Your house doesn't look great right now. Your car doesn't
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  Speaker 1: look great right now. Your situation doesn't look great right now.
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  Speaker 1: People push past you trying to get to great people,
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  Speaker 1: but God is grooming you for greatness. If you cannot
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  Speaker 1: manage the little things, You'll never be able to manage
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  Speaker 1: the big things. If the little things overwhelm you, if
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  Speaker 1: you complain and collapse about little things, you'll never be
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  Speaker 1: ready for the greater things that God is about to
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  Speaker 1: do in your life. But the Lord told me to
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  Speaker 1: get somebody ready. I don't know who it is, but
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  Speaker 1: God told me to get you ready. If it's you,
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  Speaker 1: you ought to give him a praise. God told me
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  Speaker 1: to get you ready. In spite of how small it
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  Speaker 1: looks right now, it's bigger than you think. In spite
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  Speaker 1: of how small you look right now, it's bigger than
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  Speaker 1: you think. David does not know who he is yet.
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  Speaker 1: He's yet to realize the full strength and power of
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  Speaker 1: what he is about to be. David has not been
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  Speaker 1: recognized as being a king. He doesn't really understand God.
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  Speaker 1: The magnitude of his position. He thinks he's just an
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  Speaker 1: errand boy. He thinks he's just going down there to
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  Speaker 1: carry lunch. He has no idea he is going to
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  Speaker 1: be in the fight of his life. He would have
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  Speaker 1: prepared differently if he would have known he was going
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  Speaker 1: into battle. But he came down there to do a
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  Speaker 1: little thing. Oh, but it was bigger than you think.
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  Speaker 1: David didn't know that he was walking into a battle
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  Speaker 1: and David didn't even know who Goliath was. Many of
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  Speaker 1: you have not yet met your Goliath, but your Goliath
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  Speaker 1: is coming. Your Goliath is coming and that's why I
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  Speaker 1: got to get you ready for it. You don't even
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  Speaker 1: know that your Goliath is coming and he's coming without
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  Speaker 1: warning and he's coming without an invitation and he's coming
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  Speaker 1: without you having preparation. It is just that everything that
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  Speaker 1: you have been through in your past Has been getting
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  Speaker 1: you ready. The little things have been getting you ready.
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  Speaker 1: The small task has been getting you ready. The lion
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  Speaker 1: that attacked the cub is getting you ready. The bear
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  Speaker 1: that came down after your sheep is getting you ready.
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  Speaker 1: They don't come with a sign on their neck. That
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  Speaker 1: says I'm getting you ready for Goliath. But these light afflictions.
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  Speaker 1: Which are but for a moment. Are getting you ready
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  Speaker 1: for the fight of your life. So that when you
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  Speaker 1: get in the fight of your life. It will not
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  Speaker 1: feel like the fight of your life. Because all of
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  Speaker 1: the fights that preceded it will cause you to deal
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  Speaker 1: with this fight with another level of confidence and strength.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you got to rejoice when you've been afflicted.
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  Speaker 1: Rejoice when you've been up under attack. Rejoice when all
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  Speaker 1: hell has broken loose in your life. Because God's got
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  Speaker 1: you in training camp. Ah! I want to talk to
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  Speaker 1: somebody today that's in the boot camp of greatness. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're in the boot camp of greatness because you're bigger
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  Speaker 1: than you think and you don't even know it. And
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  Speaker 1: God is about to blow your mind. Somebody logged on
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  Speaker 1: this broadcast today because God is telling you I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to blow your mind. Shatter the way you think.
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  Speaker 1: Shatter your perspectives and your attitude. Shatter how you define greatness.
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  Speaker 1: Shatter how you define responsibility. Shatter what you call pressure.
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  Speaker 1: I'm exposing you to pressure because I'm building up your tolerance.
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  Speaker 1: Because where I'm getting ready to take you, what was
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  Speaker 1: precious to me is going to become your normal. And
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  Speaker 1: I got to recalibrate you and train the way you think.
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  Speaker 1: In the book of Ephesians chapter 3 verse 20 it reads,
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  Speaker 1: Now unto him that is able to do exceeding and
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  Speaker 1: abundantly above all that we may ask or ask. Think
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  Speaker 1: that God is able to do more than all that
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  Speaker 1: we may ask or think according to the power that
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  Speaker 1: worketh in us. In other words, God will not live
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  Speaker 1: in the jail cell of your mentality. He will not
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  Speaker 1: limit himself to be incarcerated by your ideas. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: God is about to blow your mind. He said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: bigger than what you think. This day is bigger than
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  Speaker 1: what you think it is. This moment is bigger than
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  Speaker 1: what you think it is. Go ahead and get your
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  Speaker 1: little tin loaves and get on your little camel and
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  Speaker 1: saddle up and go ahead and put your little quilt
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  Speaker 1: on the back of the camel and ride on down
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  Speaker 1: to the camp because you think this is ordinary, but
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  Speaker 1: it's bigger than you think because I'm able to do
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  Speaker 1: exceedingly abundantly above all that ye may ask or think.
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  Speaker 1: My thoughts are above your thoughts, my ways above your ways.
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  Speaker 1: As high as heaven is above the earth, so are
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  Speaker 1: my thoughts above your thoughts and my ways above your ways.
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  Speaker 1: And just because it starts out small does not mean
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  Speaker 1: that it ends up small. That's why the Bible said,
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  Speaker 1: despise not the day of small beginnings. Because whenever God's
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to do great things in your life, he
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  Speaker 1: tests you on small things. I said he tests you
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  Speaker 1: on small things. Until you are faithful over a few,
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  Speaker 1: you can't be faithful over many. Until you can be
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  Speaker 1: trusted with lunch, you cannot be trusted with giants. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to somebody that can't be trusted
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  Speaker 1: with lunch. Because you're holding out for the big thing.
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  Speaker 1: And when the big thing comes, you're going to be amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Until then, you're just lazy and slowful and laid back
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  Speaker 1: and taking it easy. And you don't understand it is
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  Speaker 1: how you handle the little things that determines what's coming
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  Speaker 1: next in your life. Get your head right. Today, today, today,
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  Speaker 1: today is an opportunity for you to get your head right. Today,
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  Speaker 1: people ignore the performance of little things waiting on the
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  Speaker 1: next big thing. But the next big thing is a
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  Speaker 1: little thing. I'm going to say that again. The next
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  Speaker 1: big thing is a little thing. If David had overslept,
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  Speaker 1: he would have got there too late. And if he
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  Speaker 1: would have got there too late, he would have missed
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  Speaker 1: the greatest moment of his life. Five minutes later, and
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  Speaker 1: none of it would have happened. 20 minutes later, and
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  Speaker 1: he would have missed this earth-shattering experience that was to
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  Speaker 1: come on his life. Suppose David was late with lunch.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you're not ready to be great until you
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  Speaker 1: think everything is important. Until everything matters to you. If
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  Speaker 1: David had gotten there late, he would have missed it.
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  Speaker 1: Had David shown up early, he would have been premature.
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  Speaker 1: The timing has got to be right. Tick tock, tick tock,
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  Speaker 1: tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. With God, everything is
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  Speaker 1: about timing. With God, everything is about timing. There is
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  Speaker 1: a time to mourn. And there's a time to laugh.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a time to cry. And there's a time
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  Speaker 1: to plant. And there's a time to harvest. And there's
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  Speaker 1: a time that God wants you to be there with lunch.
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  Speaker 1: And he does not tell you that the lunch is
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  Speaker 1: a trip switch that is going to connect you with
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  Speaker 1: your destiny. He just tells you that it's lunch and
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  Speaker 1: sees will you be there on time. Look at your
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  Speaker 1: neighbor and say, show up on time. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: Shop on time. David showed up as the fight was starting.
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  Speaker 1: He was exactly where he was supposed to be when
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  Speaker 1: he was supposed to be there. That is absolutely amazing.
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  Speaker 1: The cataclysmic explosion of destiny and time. David collides when
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  Speaker 1: David jumps off of his camel and shows up just
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  Speaker 1: as the battle has gone into array and the Philistines
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  Speaker 1: have begun to march out to attack Israel. David shows
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  Speaker 1: up in that exact moment. because it was predestined. It
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  Speaker 1: was predestined. It was predestined. For generations to generations to generations,
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  Speaker 1: God has been setting things up. I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to, but you're about to walk into something
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  Speaker 1: that God has been setting up for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: My second lesson I want to get to you is
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  Speaker 1: showing up for the battle is half the battle. Just
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  Speaker 1: showing up for the battle is half the battle. Just
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  Speaker 1: showing up. Just being in your place. Just being where
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to be when you're supposed to be there
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  Speaker 1: is half the battle. You don't have to have all
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  Speaker 1: the answers. You don't have to have all the solutions.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to have the favor of the army.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to have the support of your brethren.
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  Speaker 1: Just show up. That's why the devil doesn't want you
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  Speaker 1: to be where you're supposed to be when you're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be there. Because half the battle is determined by
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  Speaker 1: showing up on time. Somebody shout hallelujah. Now I want
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  Speaker 1: you to understand for David it is just another morning.
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  Speaker 1: It's just another moment. For Israel it's just another battle.
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  Speaker 1: For the Philistines it's just another fight. God, this is
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  Speaker 1: a careful orchestration of the providence of God. When we
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  Speaker 1: start to understand the providence of God, providence is the
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  Speaker 1: timely preparation for future eventualities. The timely preparation for future eventualities.
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  Speaker 1: When you talk about God's providence, you talk about the
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  Speaker 1: things that God has been working on before David's father
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  Speaker 1: ever met his mother. God was working on this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Do you hear what I'm saying to you? It is
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  Speaker 1: only in this trip that we realize why David's great, great,
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  Speaker 1: great grandmother, Naomi, had to leave her home and go
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  Speaker 1: over into Moab. For had Naomi not gone over into Moab,
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  Speaker 1: and there she found her sons getting married to a
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  Speaker 1: Moabitess named Ruth, And has she not lost her sons?
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  Speaker 1: And has she not lost her husband? And has she
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  Speaker 1: not spent 10 years in Moab? And has she not
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  Speaker 1: decided after 10 years, I'm going back to Bethlehem? And
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  Speaker 1: had Ruth not decided to go with her mother-in-law back
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  Speaker 1: to Bethlehem, she would not have met Boaz. And had
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  Speaker 1: she not met Boaz, they wouldn't have had the baby Obed.
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  Speaker 1: And had they not had the baby Obed, they wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have had the grandchild Jesse. And had they not had Jesse,
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't have had David. All of this God has
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  Speaker 1: been working on for several generations and it was important
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  Speaker 1: that David's great-great-grandparents would trace all the way back to Boaz. Boaz.
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  Speaker 1: Boaz and Ruth that they would meet and that they
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  Speaker 1: would fall in love and that they would mate. And
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  Speaker 1: that through their lineage that David would come because God
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  Speaker 1: is positioning David to be king on the throne. And
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  Speaker 1: he has to start the kingdom out with a kid.
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  Speaker 1: He has been working on this for years. And though
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  Speaker 1: this morning feels like an ordinary morning, just another, oh God,
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  Speaker 1: I got to go. Daddy wants me to carry this life.
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  Speaker 1: Had he not gotten up that morning, he would have
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  Speaker 1: missed the moment that God had been planning for four generations.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm talking to, but you are
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  Speaker 1: just now coming into a moment that God has been
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  Speaker 1: setting up for four generations. Setting the stage that you
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  Speaker 1: would be in the right place at the right time.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, that you would be First of all,
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  Speaker 1: that you would be. And then that you would be
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  Speaker 1: at the right place at the right time. And this
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  Speaker 1: is the time that David now intersects with destiny. David
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  Speaker 1: goes down to meet Saul, not as his successor. He
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  Speaker 1: goes down to meet Saul as if he is running
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  Speaker 1: an Uber service with a lunch. God has strange ways
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  Speaker 1: of connecting you in the right place at the right time. Oh, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: That brings me to lesson number three. Providence makes sense
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  Speaker 1: out of the nonsensical things in life. Providence makes sense
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  Speaker 1: out of the nonsensical things in life. They only couldn't
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  Speaker 1: figure out why did my husband die? Why did I
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  Speaker 1: lose my sons? And why did I leave Bethlehem to
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  Speaker 1: escape a famine and go to Moab for 10 years
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  Speaker 1: only to find out that the people who stayed in
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  Speaker 1: Bethlehem didn't die? It wasn't really the famine that drew
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  Speaker 1: her to Moab in the first place. It was God
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  Speaker 1: orchestrating her life so that she could bring Ruth into
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  Speaker 1: the lineage. So that God could show us that he
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  Speaker 1: had a plan that included the idolaters, the Gentiles, the unworthy.
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  Speaker 1: That in the lineage of Jesus' bloodline would come a Moabitess.
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  Speaker 1: And when she comes home with Ruth, she just does
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  Speaker 1: not get it. She is bitter and she's upset. Because
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things you're trying to understand today, it
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  Speaker 1: may take years or generations for you to understand why
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  Speaker 1: you had to lose, what you had to lose, who
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  Speaker 1: you had to lose, when you had to lose it.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody teaches about providence, but providence lets you know that
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  Speaker 1: your God is a strategist. He said, I lift up
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  Speaker 1: this one and I take down that one. I am
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  Speaker 1: God and besides me there is no other. I decide
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  Speaker 1: who comes up and I decide who comes down. I
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  Speaker 1: am the potter and you are the clay and you
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  Speaker 1: got to trust me. Even when it doesn't make sense,
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  Speaker 1: you got to trust that my providence is stitching something
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  Speaker 1: together that your great, great, great, great grandchildren are going
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  Speaker 1: to benefit from. I don't know whether you can handle that.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm preaching to somebody. I'm preaching to somebody right now.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't have to make sense to you, Naomi. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to explain why I had you move. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to even explain why you lost your husband.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even have to explain why you lost your child.
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  Speaker 1: But over time, you will see that I never lost
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  Speaker 1: control of your life for a moment. Good God Almighty.
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  Speaker 1: I never lost control of your life even when it
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  Speaker 1: felt like your life was out of control. When it
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  Speaker 1: felt like the devil run. When it felt like the
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  Speaker 1: devil had the victory. When it felt like you had
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  Speaker 1: utterly failed. I never lost control. I work all things
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  Speaker 1: after the counsel of my own will. And I move
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  Speaker 1: this and I move that and I move the other
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  Speaker 1: and I bring this one in and I take that
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  Speaker 1: one out. Because I'm working on something and it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be bigger than you think. It's going to be
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  Speaker 1: bigger than you think. I've been working on this for generations.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be bigger than you think. So when
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  Speaker 1: David comes walking down to the battlefield carrying lunch, he
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  Speaker 1: thinks it's about the lunch. It's not about his lunch.
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  Speaker 1: It's about his legacy. It's not about the bread. It's
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  Speaker 1: about the bread. It's not about the food. It's not
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  Speaker 1: about the cheese. That was just what God used to
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  Speaker 1: get you in the field of your destiny. Like your
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  Speaker 1: great-great-grandmother was gleaning in the corners of the field. I
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  Speaker 1: orchestrated her to be over in the corner of the
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  Speaker 1: field so that Boaz would look out there and see
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  Speaker 1: her and she would catch his eye. Had she been late,
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  Speaker 1: she would have never met him. God will put you
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  Speaker 1: in the right place at the right time because he's
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  Speaker 1: working all things after the counsel of his own will.
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  Speaker 1: And he'll cause you to love who you love and
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  Speaker 1: like who you like and meet who you meet and
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  Speaker 1: be drawn to who you're drawn to because what God
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  Speaker 1: is doing is bigger than you think. Now David is
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  Speaker 1: down here carrying lunch into legacy. And he gets down
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  Speaker 1: just in time That he can hear the hoof prints.
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  Speaker 1: Can't you hear the hoof prints? The hoof prints of
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  Speaker 1: the Philistines coming. And they're coming out against the armies
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  Speaker 1: of Israel. And David is coming with his lunch. And
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  Speaker 1: he harries up and checks his camel in for somebody
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  Speaker 1: to take care of his stuff. And runs down to
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  Speaker 1: the battlefield to talk to the men. To see how
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  Speaker 1: his brothers are carrying his lunch. But it's bigger than
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  Speaker 1: you think. Just when they see the army coming. Of
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  Speaker 1: the Philistines. Out from the behind. The ranks of the
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  Speaker 1: front lines. Of the army of the Philistines. Comes this giant.
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  Speaker 1: Named Goliath. And David happened. He happened. He happened to
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  Speaker 1: be there. At the moment that Goliath. Was first presented.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible says. In the 23rd verse. And he
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  Speaker 1: talked with them. And behold there came up the champion.
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  Speaker 1: The Philistines. of Gath Goliath by name out of the
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  Speaker 1: army of the Philistines and spake according to the same
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  Speaker 1: words and David heard them when Goliath came out there
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  Speaker 1: talking smack David heard Now, everybody heard him, but the
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  Speaker 1: Bible doesn't mention who else heard him because they heard it,
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  Speaker 1: but it didn't affect them like it affected David. When
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  Speaker 1: David heard him say that, David thought, now, wait a
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  Speaker 1: minute now. Wait a minute. Who is this uncircumcised Philistine
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  Speaker 1: that he should insult the armies of the living God?
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  Speaker 1: And so David starts asking questions. What shall be given
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  Speaker 1: to the man? To the man. The kid asks the question,
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  Speaker 1: what shall be given to the man that killeth Goliath?
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  Speaker 1: And it seems so crazy because David was so little
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  Speaker 1: and Goliath was so big. And now you have to
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  Speaker 1: grapple when you have a great challenge and a small stature.
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  Speaker 1: The dichotomy between the two that have stepped on the
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  Speaker 1: stage is so wide that it seems insurmountable. How could
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  Speaker 1: something so little go after something so big? Somebody has
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  Speaker 1: got a great big vision and a little bit of money.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody's got a great big calling. and a little tiny church.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody's got a great big dream and a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of help. The dichotomy between the smallness of the boy
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  Speaker 1: and the height of the giant is an opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: God to show himself strong. Don't you think that God
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  Speaker 1: could have used a big man against a big man?
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  Speaker 1: Don't you think that God could have raised up a
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  Speaker 1: giant against a giant? But God said, my strength is
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  Speaker 1: made perfect in weakness. So I'll choose the foolish things
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  Speaker 1: of the world to confound the wise. I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to somebody that's listening at me right now who
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  Speaker 1: has felt inadequate. I want you to see the dichotomy
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  Speaker 1: between the big tall giant and the little tiny boy.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to understand that historians, Jewish historians suggest
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  Speaker 1: to us that David was only about 4'10, maybe 5
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  Speaker 1: feet at the most. Just a little boy, just a
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  Speaker 1: short little boy, 4'10, not even 5 feet. On the
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  Speaker 1: other hand, some have suggested that Goliath was as tall
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  Speaker 1: as 9 feet tall. So he was, in essence, twice
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  Speaker 1: the size of David. Little boy, huge giant. And anybody
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  Speaker 1: who was standing on the outside would think as big
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  Speaker 1: as God is, God would be with the big guy.
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  Speaker 1: But no, God, Messiah, God, good God, almighty God, is
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  Speaker 1: with the little guy. I never will forget when I
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  Speaker 1: started pastoring, they all made fun of me and they
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  Speaker 1: called me the boy pastor. And I was preaching in Montgomery,
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia, and I had about seven members. And they said,
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  Speaker 1: that boy is going out there to preach. And they
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  Speaker 1: was trying to make me feel bad about myself. But
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  Speaker 1: I fought them back. I said, David was a boy
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  Speaker 1: when he killed Goliath. But it didn't make him any
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  Speaker 1: less dead. God will use a little thing. That's why
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  Speaker 1: the enemy is trying to make you feel inadequate. Because
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  Speaker 1: he wants to slander your potentials and your possibilities. And
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  Speaker 1: deactivate your faith and your courage. And he's using how
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  Speaker 1: things look to you. To intimidate you. So that you
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  Speaker 1: don't think you're the woman for the job. So that
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  Speaker 1: you don't think that you can preach well enough. So
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  Speaker 1: that you don't think that you can sing well enough.
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  Speaker 1: So that you don't think that you're worthy of where
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  Speaker 1: God is about to place you. So that you don't
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  Speaker 1: think that you're worthy to hang out with the crowd
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  Speaker 1: that you're about to step into. And you're coming into
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  Speaker 1: the situation from a perspective of smallness. Because if the
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  Speaker 1: devil can convince you that you are small, you are
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  Speaker 1: already defeated. The Bible said that we were in their
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  Speaker 1: sight as grasshoppers, and so were we in our own sight.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever you think you're a grasshopper, you're not ready to
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  Speaker 1: possess the promised land. You got to know who you
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  Speaker 1: are in spite of your stature. You have to understand
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  Speaker 1: who you are in spite of your wallet. You have
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  Speaker 1: to know who you are in spite of your academics.
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  Speaker 1: You have to know who you are in spite of
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  Speaker 1: your husband leaving you. You have to know who you
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  Speaker 1: are and what you got. I rebuke the spirit of inferiority.
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  Speaker 1: I rebuke the spirit of inadequacy. I rebuke the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of incapacitation. Little is much when God gets in it.
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  Speaker 1: That little boy. Of all the people in Israel, God
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  Speaker 1: uses the little thing. Good God of mercy. God who
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  Speaker 1: owns heaven and earth. God who could have sent the
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  Speaker 1: angels from heaven. God who could have sent Michael and Gabriel.
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  Speaker 2: So the little boy.
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  Speaker 1: To get into a big fight, I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: to somebody that's in a big fight right now. And
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  Speaker 1: the odds are against you. And it doesn't look good.
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  Speaker 1: and you're trying to get up your confidence, and you're
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: trying to get up your strength, and Satan is so
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  Speaker 1: afraid that you would feel capable that he will cause
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  Speaker 1: your own brother, your own brethren to rise up against
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  Speaker 1: you and belittle you in front of everybody. And there
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  Speaker 1: David was, the little boy, coming up against a big thing,
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  Speaker 1: a thing that was twice his size. you would think
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  Speaker 1: that his brothers would have supported him. But the enemy
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: used his brethren to try to further deflate his confidence.
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  Speaker 1: Eliab said, what are you doing up here? I know
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  Speaker 1: your foolery and your trickery. Why don't you go back home?
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Eliab is reinforcing David's spirit of inadequacies. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to identify your Eliabs. Everybody has those Eliabs in their life.
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  Speaker 1: People that you let in that you thought would support you.
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  Speaker 1: People that you came down to help. And instead of
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: them helping you, they bring you down. See, you don't
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  Speaker 1: get it yet. David was coming to bring Eliab's lunch.
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  Speaker 1: And instead of Eliab being grateful for the lunch, Eliab
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  Speaker 1: is trying to tear down. Have you ever tried to
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: help somebody who wasn't trying to help you?
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever?
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever tried to encourage somebody who wasn't trying
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  Speaker 1: to encourage you? Have you ever had somebody that was
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  Speaker 1: trying to bring you down to your knees and make
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  Speaker 1: you feel inferior in front of people? Open the humiliation.
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  Speaker 1: He said, where are them sheep, them few sheep you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be taking care of? I could have understood
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  Speaker 1: it if it was anybody else but his brother. I
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  Speaker 1: could have understood it if it would have been any
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  Speaker 1: other soldier. I could have understood it had it come
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  Speaker 1: from the Philistines. I could have understood it had it
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  Speaker 1: come from somebody in the community. I could have understood
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  Speaker 1: it had it come from the camp. But from his
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  Speaker 1: own house, he is attacked. Eliab rose up against him.
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  Speaker 1: And I came to speak to somebody who was wounded
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  Speaker 1: by somebody that you loved. I wanted to come to
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  Speaker 1: talk to somebody who already had to fight off feeling inadequate.
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  Speaker 1: And instead of getting some help from the people that
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  Speaker 1: love you, they reinforced your insecurity. They laughed at your dream.
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  Speaker 1: And they told you, you don't belong on the level
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  Speaker 1: you're on. Well, I came to tell you, if you
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  Speaker 1: didn't belong in this spot, God wouldn't have put you
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  Speaker 1: in it. And if you didn't have what it takes,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: God wouldn't have brought you down here into this place.
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  Speaker 1: And if you didn't deserve to be here, you would
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  Speaker 1: not have been here. You were called for such a
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  Speaker 1: time as this. And this moment, this moment right here,
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  Speaker 1: this moment right here, this moment right here, God told
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  Speaker 1: me to tell you, it's bigger than you think. It's
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  Speaker 1: bigger than you think. It's bigger than you think. It's
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  Speaker 1: not about the bread. It's not about the cheese. It's
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  Speaker 1: not about the seed. It's not about the grain. This
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  Speaker 1: thing that's happening right now is bigger than you think.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Eliab is trying to discourage you because you're
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  Speaker 1: on to something. Look at somebody and holler, you're on
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  Speaker 1: to something. David didn't plan to fight that day. It
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: wasn't what he saw. It wasn't what he planned. It
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: wasn't what he had in mind. And when you just
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: looked at what he saw, you would see how he
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: could feel inadequate. He's no match for Goliath. He's not
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  Speaker 1: the size of Goliath. He has no weapons like Goliath.
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  Speaker 1: He has no army backup like Goliath. If you look
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  Speaker 1: at what he saw, you would quit. But the Bible
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  Speaker 1: doesn't emphasize what he saw. The Bible emphasizes what he heard.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't say when David saw that. It says when
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  Speaker 1: he heard that. In fact, the sentence is so simple.
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  Speaker 1: And David heard him. For we walk not by sight,
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  Speaker 1: but by faith. And faith cometh by what? Faith. Hearing
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  Speaker 1: and hearing by the word of God. This is a
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: fight between sight and hearing. Are you going to believe
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  Speaker 1: the way it looks? Or are you going to believe
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  Speaker 1: what you heard?
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  Speaker 2: And David heard him.
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  Speaker 1: Why did it say that David heard him and it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mention anybody else hearing him? Are all the other
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  Speaker 1: men deaf? Absolutely not. It is not just that David
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  Speaker 1: heard Goliath. It is how he heard Goliath. It was
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  Speaker 1: how he heard him. He heard it as an outrage.
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  Speaker 1: He heard it as an insult. He heard it as
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  Speaker 1: a mockery. He heard it in a way that said,
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  Speaker 1: I will not let this go down. He heard it
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  Speaker 1: as a solace, as a challenge. He heard it as
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  Speaker 1: something to be riled against and to be fought. How
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: you hear a thing determines how you respond to it.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Some people can hear it and run. Everybody else heard
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  Speaker 1: it and they were horrified. David heard it and he
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: got hot. Watch how you react to what you hear
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  Speaker 1: because it is some indication to what you have been
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  Speaker 1: empowered to change. You can't change what you're not insulted by.
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  Speaker 1: You can't change it until you hear it right. Until
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: you hear it as a challenge. Until you hear it
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  Speaker 1: as an insult. Until you hear it as something to
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  Speaker 1: be fought against. That's lesson number four. Lesson number four
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  Speaker 1: is this. Get this down. What you believe will always
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: overcome what you see. What you believe will always overcome
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  Speaker 1: what you see. I don't care what you see. I
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: don't care how out of sorts it is. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care how dichotomous it is. I don't care how ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: it is. What you believe will always fight off what
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: you see. Somebody right now is in a fight and
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: everything you see says this is impossible and it's ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: and I don't have the resources and I don't have
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  Speaker 1: the backup and I don't have the education and I
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: don't have the money and I don't have the training
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  Speaker 1: and I feel so small and I feel so inadequate.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't ask you how you feel. I ask you,
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  Speaker 1: what do you believe? David believed that God was not
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  Speaker 1: to be trifled with. David believed in the God of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: David believed in the armies of the living God. David
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  Speaker 1: believed that he was bigger than the enemy. David believed
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  Speaker 1: that he had the victory. David believed that he was
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  Speaker 1: an overcomer. David believed that he was more than enough.
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  Speaker 1: David believed that if God sent him, he was more
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  Speaker 1: than the world sent against him. David so believed that
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  Speaker 1: he could do it. That even without Eli himself, without
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  Speaker 1: the support of his friend, without the backup of his family,
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  Speaker 1: David said, I'll fight him. Let's go. Let's get after it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get down. You mess with the wrong black man
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  Speaker 1: this time.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: You underestimate me. Just because I'm four foot ten. Don't
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  Speaker 1: you look at what you see. You need to look
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  Speaker 1: at what's down inside of me.
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  Speaker 2: Greater is he.
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  Speaker 1: That's in me. Hallelujah. Who am I preaching to? You've
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  Speaker 1: been underestimated all of your life. They've always told you
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  Speaker 1: what you couldn't be and what you couldn't do and
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  Speaker 1: what you couldn't have. And what you couldn't become. But
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: the devil is alive. This is a showdown moment in
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  Speaker 1: your life. This is a moment for God to show
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  Speaker 1: himself strong in your life. This is a moment for
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  Speaker 1: God to show up. And in spite of how you feel,
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  Speaker 1: God is going to do what you believe. So speak
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  Speaker 1: to your feelings and tell yourself to get a grip.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Speak to your emotions and call them up unto order.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Speak to every negative voice that says you belong back
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  Speaker 1: in the sheep field and say, no, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: fight today. I'm going to fight today. Somebody say, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to fight today. I'm going to fight today.
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  Speaker 2: Say it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to fight today. I'm going to fight today.
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  Speaker 1: Win or lose, shoot or dribble, I'm going to fight today. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you will not get the victory. You will not defeat me.
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  Speaker 1: You will not bully me. You will not hold me back.
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  Speaker 2: Greater is he.
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  Speaker 1: There he stood with his four foot self. There he
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  Speaker 1: stood with no sword and no shield. There he stood
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  Speaker 1: with no training and no background. He wasn't even enlisted
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  Speaker 1: in the army. He wasn't even in the service. But
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  Speaker 1: he made up in his mind, I will fight you back.
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  Speaker 1: I will fight you back. And in spite of his stature,
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  Speaker 1: God brought him before the king.
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  Speaker 2: Your gift.
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  Speaker 1: Will make room for you and bring you before the king.
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  Speaker 1: Who ever heard of such a thing that a boy
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  Speaker 1: would be brought to the king as a solution to
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  Speaker 1: a national crisis over top of the whole army? They
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  Speaker 1: brought in this little boy and said, this little boy
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  Speaker 1: down here is talking smack. While the army is running,
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  Speaker 1: he's talking smack. Now the army looks big, but David
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  Speaker 1: was big on the inside. He was little on the outside,
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  Speaker 1: but he was big on the inside. And if you're
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  Speaker 1: big enough on the inside, they'll bring you before kings.
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  Speaker 1: They'll set you before princes. They'll move you into positions
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  Speaker 1: of power. If you know who you are, if you
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  Speaker 1: walk in the room like you're supposed to be there,
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  Speaker 1: people start paying attention. And all of the soldiers that
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  Speaker 1: should have been on the field brought David before the king.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord told me to tell you to get
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  Speaker 1: ready for the shift. Get ready for the shift. Get
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  Speaker 1: ready for the shift. I know you're scared, but get
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  Speaker 1: ready for the shift. I know you're nervous, but get
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  Speaker 1: ready for the shift. I know you feel incompetent, but
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  Speaker 1: get ready for the shift. I know you have insecurities,
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  Speaker 1: but get ready for the shift. I know you feel insufficient,
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  Speaker 1: but get ready for the shift. God is going to
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  Speaker 1: bring you before the king. And he sent me here
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  Speaker 1: to tell you that it's bigger than you think. And
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: here David is standing before the king. And he brought
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  Speaker 1: him before the king. And the king told him, what
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  Speaker 1: you come to do? He said, I came to kill Goliath.
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  Speaker 1: Now look at this. Whoever killed Goliath would win Saul's daughter.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever killed Goliath would be enriched financially. Whoever killed Goliath
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  Speaker 1: their family would never have to pay taxes the rest
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  Speaker 1: of their life. David is fighting for a family that
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  Speaker 1: don't even like him. You haven't fought until you fought
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  Speaker 1: for somebody who don't even appreciate you. You haven't fought
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  Speaker 1: until you fought for somebody who thinks you don't even
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  Speaker 1: belong in the place that you're in. But the reason
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  Speaker 1: David was on the battlefield was if he killed Goliath,
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  Speaker 1: his daddy, who didn't even like him, would no longer
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  Speaker 1: have to pay taxes. Sometimes you have to fight even
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  Speaker 1: when people don't appreciate you. And David walks in the room,
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  Speaker 1: and he says, I'll take him on. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: I will kill Goliath. Killing Goliath changed David's family's life.
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  Speaker 1: Killing Goliath. changed David's life. Killing Goliath changed how the
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  Speaker 1: army saw him. Killing Goliath set David up to be
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  Speaker 1: positioned to be king. As I get ready to come
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  Speaker 1: to the close of this message, I want to warn you,
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  Speaker 1: whenever God is about to elevate you, there's always a
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  Speaker 1: Goliath in front of you. Goliath is always the gatekeeper
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  Speaker 1: on the next move of God. Who am I talking to?
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  Speaker 1: Until you find your Goliath, you won't find your throne.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever you're close to your throne, I'm telling you what
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: I know in my personal experience. Whenever you're close to
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  Speaker 1: your throne, Goliath will always stick up his ugly head
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  Speaker 1: to fight you. He is always an alarm system that
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  Speaker 1: you're close to the treasure. Satan always leaves the Goliath
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  Speaker 1: to guard your treasure. When you find your Goliath, you
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  Speaker 1: have found your treasure. Wherever the giant is, that's where
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  Speaker 1: destiny is. is calling you and when you see the
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  Speaker 1: giant don't run from the giant because if you run
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  Speaker 1: from the giant you will run from your destiny While
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  Speaker 1: everybody else was running away from it, David was running
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  Speaker 1: toward it because he knew that the giant was the
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  Speaker 1: key to the next dimension in his life. Now hear me,
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  Speaker 1: I feel a prophetic influence coming over me right now.
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  Speaker 1: That Goliath that you see right now is proof positive
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  Speaker 1: that he's guarding your treasure. When you take him out,
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  Speaker 1: God is going to open up something amazing for you.
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  Speaker 2: Don't run.
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  Speaker 1: From the giant. Run at him. Run straight at him.
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  Speaker 1: Now you have to understand, they tried to give David
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  Speaker 1: Saul's armor. David put it on, but it didn't fit.
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  Speaker 1: You can't fight your Goliath being somebody else. You have
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  Speaker 1: to fight your Goliath As yourself. Because it was you
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  Speaker 1: that God brought to the place. Don't show up as
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  Speaker 1: a stranger. Who am I talking to? Don't show up
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  Speaker 1: as nobody else. It's you that God blessed. It's you
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  Speaker 1: that God called. It's you that God anointed. It's you
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  Speaker 1: that God set aside. It's you that God prepared for
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  Speaker 1: such a moment as this. Show up as yourself. And
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  Speaker 1: he shook off Saul's armor. And he said, I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I can't fight in your armor. And you know what?
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  Speaker 1: I always made the mistake whenever I read this text.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that David left home with five smooth stones,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't. He said, wait a minute. All he
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  Speaker 1: had with him was a bag, a shepherd's bag. And
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  Speaker 1: he had to go down to the brook and get
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  Speaker 1: him some stones. Because you have to realize David didn't
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  Speaker 1: even come down there to fight. So this was an emergency.
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  Speaker 1: And in an emergency, you got to use what's at
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: your disposal. In an emergency, you got to use what's
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  Speaker 1: within your reach. In an emergency, you got to go
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: back to the basics. In an emergency, you got to
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: go back to your roots. Somebody said, how in the world,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: after 43 years, can you stand to preach in an
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: empty church? I said, because I started in an empty church.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: And in an emergency, I know how to go back.
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  Speaker 1: I know how to go back. You messed with the
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  Speaker 1: wrong one.
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  Speaker 2: Because I know how.
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  Speaker 1: I came out of the storefront.
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  Speaker 2: I know how.
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  Speaker 1: To stand flat footed all by myself and preach the
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  Speaker 1: unadulterated word of God.
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  Speaker 2: David knew how.
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  Speaker 1: To fight with rocks. He didn't know nothing about shields.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't know nothing about swords. He didn't know nothing
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  Speaker 1: about catapults. He didn't know nothing about horses. All he
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  Speaker 1: knew how to fight with was rocks. But whatever you're
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  Speaker 1: good at, God will use something you got. God will
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  Speaker 1: use something that you're used to. God will use something
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  Speaker 1: that you're familiar with. And David, there David was, the
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  Speaker 1: would-be king of Israel is down in the riverbed like
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  Speaker 1: a child looking amongst the crawdads picking out rocks. That one.
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  Speaker 1: That one's too rough. I want that one right here.
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  Speaker 1: And that one, that one right there. And he made
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  Speaker 1: him a weapon. He made him a weapon. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even a slingshot. It was a shepherd's bag turned into
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  Speaker 1: a slingshot. It was a bag, it was a rag
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  Speaker 1: and a rock. And he ran down on that field
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  Speaker 1: and said, what did you say? He ran down on
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: that field, and the dichotomy was so strong that Goliath
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  Speaker 1: snickered and laughed and said, that's what they all got
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  Speaker 1: to send against me today? That little boy with that
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: rag and that rug, that's what's going to kill me?
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  Speaker 1: What am I, a dog? Did you send this kid
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: down here to kill me? The enemy was insulted that
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: God would send so little after so much. But what
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: the devil didn't know is that it's bigger than you think. How?
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: The devil didn't know it. How?
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  Speaker 1: That's what he don't know about you. He don't know
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  Speaker 1: you're bigger than he thinks. He don't know that you're
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  Speaker 1: bigger than he thinks. He doesn't know that God's going
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  Speaker 1: to use you in a greater way than he thinks.
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  Speaker 1: In spite of how you grew up. In spite of
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  Speaker 1: what happened in your childhood. in spite of your background,
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: in spite of your hardship, in spite of your insecurities,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: the message that God gave me for you is that
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  Speaker 1: it's bigger than you think. As I close this message today,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to understand this. Whatever you had in
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: your mind that God was going to do, get it out.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: Whatever you thought was going to happen, get rid of it.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Whatever you thought God might do in your life is
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: too small. The Holy Ghost said, this is bigger than
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: you think. Lift your hands. Open up your mouth. And
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: say yes to the bigness. With your four-foot self.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah!
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  Speaker 1: With your worried self. With your insecure, intimidated self. Let
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: God hear your voice. Because what he's about to do
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  Speaker 1: in your life is bigger than you think. And I
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  Speaker 1: know Eli didn't like it. And I know they didn't
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: treat you right and they didn't welcome you. And I
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  Speaker 1: know they didn't do what you thought they would do
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: when you thought they would do it. But the Lord
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: sent me here to tell you The reason he's caused
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: all this hubbub in your life was to shift you
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: into position. Because what he's getting ready to do is bigger. No, no, no, no.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: It's bigger than that. Think again. It's bigger than that.
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  Speaker 1: It's bigger than you think. What God is getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to do in your life. is bigger than that. So
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  Speaker 1: I'll rehearse this for you. Number one, great people do
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  Speaker 1: little things with excellence. Number two, showing up for the
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: battle is half the battle. Number three, providence makes sense
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  Speaker 1: out of the nonsensical. And number four, what you believe
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  Speaker 1: will always overcome what you see. He threw that little
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  Speaker 1: bitty rock at Goliath. He could hardly even see it.
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  Speaker 1: But it was bigger than he thought. It hit him
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  Speaker 1: in the head. It knocked him to the ground. And
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: then we see why David had no sword. Because God
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: used Goliath's sword to kill him. God is going to
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  Speaker 1: use What your enemy is trying to use on you,
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  Speaker 1: God's going to use it on him. And Goliath was
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: beheaded by his own sword. I want you to praise
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  Speaker 1: God while your Goliath bleeds.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You will prevail. And you don't have to be no taller.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: And you don't have to be any richer. And you
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: don't have to be any greater, any wiser, or any smarter.
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  Speaker 1: Because you are bigger than you think. Because God is
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: bigger than you think. Because your little weapons that you
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: got down out the brook that don't look like nothing
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: but the toys of a kid are bigger than you think.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be afraid to throw it. It looks small, but
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: throw it. It looks small, but invest it. It looks small,
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: but plant it. Because your little seed might be real small,
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: but it's bigger than you think. For what you believe
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: in God to do, it looks paradoxical to everything that
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: you're trying to do. But the Lord told me to
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: tell you that it's bigger than you think. It is
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: no accident that you are listening at this message today.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: This is the Sunday that sets in array the armies
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  Speaker 1: of the living God and things are about to shift
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  Speaker 1: for you in spite of how you feel you've been
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  Speaker 1: nursing your feelings all of your life your victory is
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  Speaker 1: not in your feelings sweetheart your victory is in your
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: faith And David heard him. Out of all the people
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  Speaker 1: that heard him, when the right one heard him, he said,
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  Speaker 1: you're going down today. You're going down.
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  Speaker 2: Today.
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  Speaker 1: And everything that was promised to him, he got it.
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  Speaker 1: He ended up with Saul's daughter. He ended up rich
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: and wealthy. His family ended up paying no taxes. And
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: he ended up with the throne of the king. Because
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: this day that nobody preaches about, this lunch that nobody
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: preaches about, these tin loaves that nobody preaches about, this
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: ephah full of corn that nobody preaches about, They don't
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: preach about it because they don't think it's big. They
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: don't preach about the trip and getting up early in
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: the morning to bring a lunch because they don't think
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: it's big. But when I read it, God told me,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: it's bigger than you think. I leave those words with you.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: Teach them to your children. Tell them they're bigger than
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: they think. Share it with your spouse. You're bigger than
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: you think. Teach it to your ministry. You're bigger than
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: you think. I know the odds are against you and
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: things don't look good. But God said, it's bigger than
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: you think. Can I pray with you right now? I
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: want to have an honest moment, just me and you.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: An honest moment with people who don't feel like they're enough.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: Who late at night when everybody else has gone to
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: sleep feel like that they're an imposter in their own life.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: That people respect you more than you respect yourself. And
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: they believe in you and they expect things from you
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: that you don't think you can do yourself. Because they
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: see greatness and you measured yourself and you know you're
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: only four foot tall. I want to pray with people.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: who have backed away from challenges because you measured yourself,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: who don't know how to receive compliments because you measured yourself,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: who don't know how to take on new challenges and
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: feel strange in big rooms with new people because you
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: feel so vulnerable, so insufficient, so less than. I want
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: you to just be honest and let me in that
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: room That you don't show anybody. So you and I
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: can touch and agree. I don't want to pray for
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: who you pretend to be. I want to pray for
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: the four foot you. Who's standing down in the field
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: looking at something that's so tall you can't see the
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: end of it. I want to pray with the part
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: of you that shrinks away from opportunities. That makes excuses
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: when you have chances. The part of you that tries
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: to stay quiet and be invisible in rooms. Because you
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: don't feel like you're enough. And you never have. But
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: today God wants to heal you. And he's going to
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: use this word to do it. And I know the
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: people that should have built you up didn't build you up.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: And the voices that should have told you who you were,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: they laughed at you and told you to go back
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: home and take care of your sheep. But that's why
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: God sent me to remind you, in spite of how
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: you measure yourself, you're bigger than you think. And as
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: you and I pray today, the Holy Spirit said, don't
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: be scared. You're standing on the precipice of a great opportunity.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: Don't forfeit it. Don't make an excuse and run and hide.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: Because of your feelings of inadequacy, you have always thought
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: you were inadequate. And you have always been wrong. I
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: touch and agree with you right now in the name
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: of Jesus that that part of you, that lying, abusive
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: voice That has always tormented you. Would be rebuked. By
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: the power of God. And that once and for all.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: You would stand in the integrity. Of who God says
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: you are. That once and for all. You would run
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: after the thing that's running after you. With rocks in
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: your hand. Because you know who you are. That once
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: and for all, as you and I touch and agree,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: that you would recognize that your God is bigger than
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: your biggest doubts and your biggest fears and your biggest worries.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: And because he's in you, you too are bigger than
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: you think. If I don't rebuke this spirit, it's going
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: to kill your life. It's going to kill your ministry.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: It's going to kill your opportunity. It's going to kill
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: your marriage. It's going to kill your family. It's going
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: to kill your career. It's going to kill your company.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: I come against that four-foot you. You're a giant killer.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: And you don't even know it. I speak to those
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: of you who have been surrounded by ordinary days and
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: you've stopped being the best version of yourself because you
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: don't think that it matters. But little things matter. The
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  Speaker 1: way you walk, the way you talk, the way you
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  Speaker 1: present yourself, the way you speak, the way you dress,
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  Speaker 1: it all matters. God uses these little ordinary days as
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  Speaker 1: precursors to the greatness of That's about to break forth
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  Speaker 1: in your life. Don't waste another little day. Because every
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  Speaker 1: little day is bigger than you think. I challenge you
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  Speaker 1: right now without worrying about who's looking or what they
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  Speaker 1: think or how they might judge you. To lift your
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  Speaker 1: hands and open your mouth and let the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: come on in. Let the Holy Spirit come in. And
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  Speaker 1: touch the forefoot you. The forefoot you. The frightened you.
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  Speaker 1: The weary you. The you that makes excuses. And the
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  Speaker 1: you that hides. And the you that runs. And the
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  Speaker 1: you that feels inadequate. And the you that argues with
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  Speaker 1: people and barks at people so that they won't see
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  Speaker 1: that behind that barking dog, you're just a scared little puppy.
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  Speaker 1: Lift your hands. Lift your mind. Lift your thinking. The
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  Speaker 1: word of the Lord has come to you today. You're
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  Speaker 1: bigger than you think. This is the word of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: from the potter's house to your house. This is a
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  Speaker 1: prophetic utterance about the mediocre, mundane, plain days that you
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  Speaker 1: let escape you. Every one of them is bigger than
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  Speaker 1: you think. Your lunch Is your legacy. In Jesus name. Amen.